| | Wiimote Controlled 15 Ton Robotic Claw Arm
Although you can’t play with Wiimote controlled 15 ton grapples in the living room. This hack isn’t anything like the Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot controlled with a Wiimote or the Wiimote operated Lawnmower. This one has gone king-size.... |
![]() | Build a Sensory Robot with Arduino and Processing
An infrared proximity sensor on a robot can give it ‘eyesight’ to make sense of the real world. Cory Barton has used an inexpensive Sharp distance sensor, an Arduino and the open source Processing language to build his robotics... |
![]() | 7 Oustanding Fireworks Projects for the 4th
The 4th of July is just a few days away and we've got 10 great DIY projects to spice up your evening. You can actually make your own fireworks then create a custom wireless detonation panel to blast them off!
How to Make a Fireworks... |
![]() | Make an Extraordinary DIY Transformers Robot
Little is known about this fantastic project, but the video really speaks for itself. Obviously it's not as smooth as the movie, it's still an impressive engineering build. It uses a bunch of servo motors to accomplish the complex... |
![]() | MIT's Speedy Motorized Shopping Cart
A few MIT students build this motorized shopping cart out of parts from an old go-cart. While some students spend college parting, these cool kids used their time to build this babe-magnet of a ride. You can check out the video demo above and... |
![]() | Ridiculous Giant Pneumatic Alarm Clock
Although you have to laugh at the absurd demo vid above, you still have to admire the great engineering work. The pneumatic bed shaking alarm clock is for the deepest sleepers you know. The contraption works by an air fed valve from two... |
![]() | RFID Enabled Mp3 Player Hack using Arduino
This is a fantastic, unique project which uses RFID tagged pictures to select and play album. The system utilizes the easy to use arduino microcontroller platform along with an RFID reader and is also ethernet enabled. See more pics and... |
![]() | Powerful Blu-Ray Laser on a Keychain
Here’s another fantastic tutorial from Jay, a DIY lasers expert. See all of our DIY laser projects. I picked up this little key chain light at Lowe's. It is made from a solid piece of brass. It is very heavy duty, but very small.
Beam... |
![]() | Incredible, Colorful RGB LED Light Strip
This incredible, RGB LED light strip allows you to address each and every LED individually, creating splendid color patters. If you were challenged by the Open Source POV Bicycle Wheel Animation project we covered last week or were thinking of... |
![]() | DIY Internet Enabled Arduino Messenger
Is there anything that the Arduino microcontroller can’t do? Just look at the vast assortment of applications in Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web we've covered earlier. Here's another awesome arduino project by Hans Scharler. Hans uses an... |








































